Your Mind Can Take You There

Energy never dies, only transforms.
Are we able to perceive energy around us other than what we have within us? Most people don’t, but those how do can discover entire new worlds, realities and parallel universes! The ancient sages up there in the Himalayas have achieved it with the help of heightened consciousness that connects one with ones natural psychic power to transcend time and space, explore the past, access the future, and view remote events or places in the present. That’s mind travel for you. Possible? Maybe. I wouldn’t know but it seems to be a wonderful relaxation tool when boredom brings your life to grinding halt.
Come, sit, fasten your seat-belt and read with me. Slip into my poem and travel my mind’s journey.

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Out here in the big city

Through the litwindows I see

People busy about their homes

Finishing up for the day.

People busy living lives

Monotonously sore

Caught too in this snare

Mine no better than theirs.

My heart flies off

To far distant lands

To the deepest blue oceans

Where no one ever wanders.

Picture myself in a valley

The Valley of Flowers

Lie down among the purple

And look up at puffyclouds.

Spreading beauty and perfumes

Dazzling with intense colours

Flowers have short lives

And mine so painfully long.

Then I am on the ocean

Rocked gently by the swell

Above the orangeskies open

Till the stars begin to parade.

I feel the depth and vastness

Silvermoonlight’s silky caress

Whales and plankton under me

I too swim wild and free.

I leave for the snowy mountains

Its chillness holds me close

Smell of pine trees and freshness

I fill up with warm happiness.

Sound of tweeting birds

Butterflies flirting by

Dwarfed by the mountains

In unison with nature, I merge.

Jolted back to the city

I let my head hit the pillow

Got to catch some shut-eye

Or else be lost tomorrow.

Morning rush is maddening

Breakfast on the table

Got to hustle to the office

Before the boss gets there.

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Size Zero. A dream sold well. That's all there is to it. Beauty is a big time business that involves dissatisfied people. It only leads to complications not only in the body but also in the mind. Pro Ana Webring has a list of thinspirations that are really funny and can give you an idea of how an anorexic mind thinks. Infact I included this in my post as a chectlist of symptoms. If you find you have a few of them, then mabe you need some help! -From Lightchatter

• Make an ANA scrapbook with pics of skinny models. Write down all the reasons you want to lose weight. Keep track of everything you eat. 
• The only freedom left is the freedom to starve.
• Giving in to food shows weakness, be strong and you will be better than everyone else.
• You aren't defeated when you lose, you're only defeated when you quit!
• Do not give up on what you want most for what you want at the moment.
• Nothing matters when I'm thin.
• An imperfect body reflects an imperfect person.
• Nothing tastes as good as thin feels.
• I'm not starving myself. I'm perfecting my emptiness.
• It's not deprivation, it's liberation.
• Craving is only a feeling.
• Thin is a skill.
• What's in your fingers today is on your hips tomorrow.
• Quod me nutrit, me destruit (What nourishes me also destroys me)
• What the scale says is the most important thing.
• Being thin and not eating are signs of true willpower and success.

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Plot is planned, a clever trap laid

Money spills as spin machines trade

Effulgent in smart labeled suits

Pert fleet footed those high fliers

Billboard images that entice

With painted dreams of fancy lies

Deceived by the glitterati

Sizezero-sixpack guarantee

Mind, the body image controls

Beauty begets fame and laurels

Not all are blessed traffic stoppers

Most numskull dream-body hopers

In a bank vault his laughter rings

Beauty hunter an old song sings

The fat man’s mind bestirred berserk

Pills and drills and suctions at work

A cruel diet gives way soon

To depression binging of doom

Constant companions for days 

Self loathing and neurosis stays

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